Uranium

[skOsH♥]

Need an easy place to find it

Recently got the hyperdrive

Traveled 1000+ LY to like 12 star systems

Scanning planets, none are uranium rich. Or any other elements I need for the other types of warp drives

I don't like reading game guides, but can someone just nudge me in the right direction and sort of give me some hints? Am I supposed to try and find it on asteroids, or planets, or should I just chill in a space station and ask to buy from other pilots?

[ChanceGateau]

Desert Planets usually/Radioactive ones.

[Jaggid Edje]

Open your Catalogue (one of the tabs when you hit escape), and click "Materials & Items" on the right side, then click "Raw Materials & Exotic" on the left side, and finally click on "Uranium".

This will pin it as your objective in the log, and the galaxy map will show an icon on the closest system that has uranium in it.

You find it on planets. As a resource deposit which you mine with the terrain manipulator.

[urman.gamer]

One of the advanced warp drives requires cadmium. I usually buy boost drive upgrades with nanites, install them, and then break them down to get the cadmium. (quality of the drive upgrade doesn't matter, so spend as few nanites as possible.)

[BlackWater]

That the way this works, you have it stuffed in your face till you actually need it, then its search 3/4 of the galaxy for the stuff.

[Lindy Bomber]

Originally posted by ChanceGateau:

Desert Planets usually/Radioactive ones.

Barren (desert) planets and Irradiated (radioactive) planets are different things. Irradiated planets have Uranium as their biome resource. Not finding one in 12 systems is a little unusual.

[Masque]

Also look for a yellow star when you're scanning on foot.

Lots of times, that's a mineable resource called Metal "Fingers".

Those are HUGE piles of Uranium and Gold.

Edit:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2917178693

[jacobellinger]

Originally posted by d¢:

Need an easy place to find it

Recently got the hyperdrive

Traveled 1000+ LY to like 12 star systems

Scanning planets, none are uranium rich. Or any other elements I need for the other types of warp drives

I don't like reading game guides, but can someone just nudge me in the right direction and sort of give me some hints? Am I supposed to try and find it on asteroids, or planets, or should I just chill in a space station and ask to buy from other pilots?

I just get mine from metal fingers which is a a semi-rare mineral structure you can find on planets and as far as I can tell they respawn so it's worth putting down a base computer near one. I can't even get rid of the amount O am carrying right now like 20k. You will know when you find one because it shows up as three yellow stars on your visor. well metal fingers and also rolling mold and some other rare things but traveling by foot for about a half hour on just about any old planet will have you find some eventually.

[Geldric™]

Uranium can also be purchased at some space stations along with the NPC’s that land… like very often.

[thowlimer]

Question i have is _why_ uranium ?, it is hardly used by anything other than the launcher(which can be fuelled by the bottles made from di-hydrogen and a metal plate,
or you install the auto-charger so it refuels slowly over time)

The other drive metal are a bit more used though, just need to go to the approriate color stars for those(need chromatic metal to make the drive for cadmium, cadmium for emeriil and so on)

[Geldric™]

Originally posted by thowlimer:

Question i have is _why_ uranium ?, it is hardly used by anything other than the launcher(which can be fuelled by the bottles made from di-hydrogen and a metal plate,

I can only speak for myself, but when playing any form of Survival mode, it is far more efficent to use the associated materials for recharging due mostly to inefficiency (eg it takes TWO life support gel's to fully recharge or TWO ion batteries).

I always use the following:
Dioxite = Life Support
<matching material> = Hazard protection (Dioxite for Cold, Uranium for Radiation)
Uranium = Launch Thrusters
Pyrite = Pulse engine
etc

Those of you that play on normal will argue that it's just easier to use the ship fuel and life support gel, which perhaps for you it is... cool. It is not easier for me playing survival.

[gNg]

Even on normal it's far easier to use uranium to charge launch thrusters and dioxite for life support when oxygen is scarce.

[thowlimer]

Di-hydrogen and ferrite can be found on any planet, uranium is a bit more scarce was my point, plus the launch fuel is one of the few that actually charges it up to 100% rather than 80 like the exosuit refills, then again depending on your upgrades you will almost always be somewhere above zero when you need to refill so there is waste on that end instead for the launcher ;).

I usually prefer the ion batteries over the materials since if frees up inventory space not having to lug all the specific materials around, once you have the teleport
upgrade installed in your freighter and in system its less of an issue.

So to me, and i play survival atm. its easier to use the ion batteries and launch fuel since
it frees up inventory space and i can make more on any type of planet. Also i dont use 2
ion batteries i just use the one for 80% and have to top it up a little sooner than i would
have had to if it was at 100% to begin with.

[Geldric™]

Originally posted by thowlimer:

<snip>
So to me, and i play survival atm. its easier to use the ion batteries and launch fuel since
it frees up inventory space and i can make more on any type of planet.<snip>

You are of course not wrong... we just play the game differently since I almost always recharge "everything" when it's around 50% ;)